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Mapplethorpe: A Biography
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DescriptionThe brilliant photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) was one of the most infamous figures of the contemporary art world. Patricia Morrisroe, drawing on the numerous interviews she conducted with him and those who know him, has written a remarkable biography that reveals a life even more daring than his art.
Mapplethorpe: Polaroids
 List Price: Price: $39.15 You Save: $20.85 (35%) DescriptionCritically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. Revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career, this book brings together almost three hundred images, many never published, from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. Included is a selection of his colour Polaroids and objects incorporating his early instant photographs. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, while others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author traces the development of Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography during a period of five years, from 1970 to 1975, when the artist worked mainly in this medium. The images include self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, portraits of lovers and friends such as Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff and Marianne Faithful and observations of everyday objects. Marked by a spontaneity and creative curiosity, these fragile images offer an illuminating contrast to the glossy perfection of the work for which Mapplethorpe is best known, allowing us a more personal glimpse of his artistry.
Perfection in Form
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Black Book (German Edition)
 List Price: Price: $25.32 You Save: $14.63 (37%) DescriptionA classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpebooks. And for many most certainly the most typical Mapplethorpe, now available once again thanks to this re-edition. The Black Book, first published in 1986, presents 96 formally stringent and highly erotic nudes, all of them photographs of black men, either as full figures, or staged as details, as fragments of their bodies. Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all their presence and sensuous radiance. Black-andwhite photography was Mapplethorpe s preferred medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based on completely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualize any number of tonal gradations and penetrate deep into the very pores of the gleaming black skin. It is a method that reached a climax in these images. The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to the black male body, has always been one of the most important visual contributions to the discussion on beauty, sensuality, and sexuality in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
 List Price: Price: $57.76 DescriptionKnown for his steamy and luxurious photographs of nudes, Mapplethorpe has observed of his work that it "is about seeing--seeing things like they haven't been seen before." 45 color and 85 duotone illustrations.Mapplethorpe Robert News
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ANSA.itMapplethorpe, Michelangelo show(ANSA) - Florence, May 27 - An unusual new exhibition here contrasts the art of controversial 20th-century photographer Robert Mapplethorpe with that of Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti in a celebration of the human form.
ForbesUnique French Edition Of Erotic Classic Up For Sale(Why didn't Robert Mapplethorpe illustrate books, one wonders.) Only five copies of the edition exist, each one an original because the paintings are all unique. This volume is numbered three in the series.
Telegraph.co.ukAnthony d'Offay: Artist Rooms, review and Jannis Kounellis; conceptual artists such as Richard Hamilton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner; film- and video-makers Bill Viola and Bruce Nauman; and photographers Francesca Woodman, Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe.